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sumgye t1_jbi07nv wrote

Reply to comment by dumberthenhelooks in Upper West Side votes against proposed rest stop for delivery workers at 72nd Street by mowotlarx

If Doordash/Uber/Grubhub want to do business in our city, we should charge them a fee. They charge us enough fees. Charge them a fee and put that towards these rest stops.

Edit: let me clarify, we do charge taxes, so do they. We should charge an additional fee for them. There is no way they will pass that extra cost down to the consumer. They won’t have the nerve.

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Mrsrightnyc t1_jbi7nma wrote

Exactly - why can’t they rent a space for the people that make them money and offer them bathroom access and break spot.

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marclande t1_jbighln wrote

The funny thing is DoorDash doesn’t actually make money, they reported a net income loss of over like a billion bucks, but people are stupid enough to still invest in them so I guess they could probably afford it

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AnacharsisIV t1_jbk8jgt wrote

Because that would be an "employee perk" and these guys are explicitly not employees.

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spoil_of_the_cities t1_jbi2mlj wrote

They pay a fee it's called tax

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jewkidontheblock t1_jbi7pkk wrote

I take your point but the slew of unsafe e-bikes speeding down already busy avenues is a negative for everyone else that they should take responsibility for (separately from their taxes)

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heiebdbwk877 t1_jbibdaf wrote

Agreed, NYC can amend tax law to capture this new externality no one predicted 30 years ago but oh the angry billionaires

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AnacharsisIV t1_jbk8nb8 wrote

We pay for the NYPD with our taxes, if the ebikes are unsafe it's the NYPD's job to enforce traffic laws. Don't be mad at Uber, be mad at the cops

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heystarkid t1_jbjktlq wrote

There’s no way they’ll pass the extra cost down to the consumer? That’s exactly what they’ll do. Uber makes users pay the congestion surcharge if you travel below 96th st.

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CGNYC t1_jbjr17a wrote

These delivery services are not a necessity… if the cost of them go up to make the drivers job halfway decent while making it fair to the community in which these rest stops are, I have no problem with that. If paying delivery fees and service charges are not within your budget, pick up.

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heystarkid t1_jbjswlv wrote

I agree! Just wanted to point out that it’s unrealistic to think that it wouldn’t be passed down to the consumers.

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MobileJackfruit8 t1_jbkzwdu wrote

Yep. Of course they will. When VC money starts to run out and companies need to turn a profit the prices go up. Happened with ride share and will happen/is happening with food delivery

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Linearts t1_jbl21gw wrote

>We should charge an additional fee for them. There is no way they will pass that extra cost down to the consumer. They won’t have the nerve.

This is complete nonsense. Of course they will pass extra costs onto customers. The only way that would not happen is if supply is completely inelastic (they cannot change how much food they deliver, for any amount of money) and/or demand is completely elastic (food sales would drop to 0% if any of the fee goes into the final price of delivered food).

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Shreddersaurusrex t1_jboo6lu wrote

They’ll pass it on to the drivers by paying them less or just charge the customers more

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Soap_ t1_jbiycwy wrote

Then they won't operate in your city, and you won't have delivery service. The margins are poor as it stands already.

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coldbruise t1_jbjfrgn wrote

There's no way in hell a delivery service would decide to not operate in NYC.

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Soap_ t1_jbm6j40 wrote

Even with negative margins?

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